Jan Forsse, M.S.

Jan Forsse, M.S., loves working with graduate students who have a heart for students with disabilities. She started her career in Abilene, Texas, tutoring students with language and learning disabilities, then worked with low-achieving inner-city students in a Title I pullout program in Nashville, Tennessee. She also spent three years teaching in Zambia, Central Africa, as a missionary teacher, taught grades K–5 in California public schools in Glendale and Placentia, and spent seven years in school administration at the Los Angeles County Office of Education’s Teacher Education and Computer Center. She was an adjunct professor at APU for 13 years and is now in her sixth year as a full-time faculty member at the Orange County Regional Center. She co-created the Branson Bear intellectual property with her husband, Ken, and they work together managing the Teddy Ruxpin intellectual property that Ken created.